Unfortunately, too many people get the information they base their choices and actions on from books and movies. Movies project powerful images into the very area of the mind where "seeing is believing".
I wouldn't sell them short. 
Depressing? What, you can't get over the fact it's FICTION? We're heading out to see the movie today.
Oh puh_leez, whereas the story is fiction, the underlying conspiracy theories and the slander of Christ and the Catholic Church is being put out as factual. Brown is very clear he believes the conspiracy theories.
I know it's fiction, you know it's fiction but it's clearly an attempt by Hollywood to destablize the belief of millions in the Catholic Church.
Typical, Hollywood, anti-Christian propaganda.
Boycott it.
So I guess you see nothing wrong with a movie that goes out of its way to blasphemize Jesus Christ.
I saw it Friday, and I enjoyed it. I don't understand all the hysteria. This should have no more impact on someone's faith than ET.
Fiction doesn't matter? Don't tell that to the Rand/Heinlein devotees here. Fiction matters very much to a culture.
It changed me from being a Christian to "undecided"!
Be a patriot. Go see "United 93" instead.
The "fiction" justification doesn't wash. How would you like it if someone wrote a book where you were the main character. They used your real name, birthdate, town you live in, job etc..., but than had you patronizing prostitutes or being into S&M or some such. The author would label it "fiction", but I bet you would be none to happy.
It was good!
The different segments on History/Nat'l Geo - etc, channels on Opus Dei, Knight's Templar, MM and other "nonexistent" "Brown lies" are helping, IMO, also.
Brown has been both vilified and credited with "ideas" that have been around for 2000 years.
As well as ancient writings, there are several NON-fiction books in print currently, many written before Brown's, on these same subjects. Nothing in the book/movie was a 'new' premise to me, as I have been reading these for a couple decades now.
Strikes me funny that no hue and cry has been made over all the NON-fiction books, with extensive biblios, on these 'ideas' - I guess not many people reading NON-fiction these days...
It took a mystery NOVEL (like in FICTION) to catch the attention of the public. But, hey, if it works to bring the LIGHT out on the past and present history - even if inconvenient for some power structures, well...
Jesus said "...you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
He also told us how to ascertain truth -
If a thing cannot take the LIGHT of day - oh well...
Many people aren't taking it that way - no doubt in part because Brown insists that all his research for the novel is "absolutely true."
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'Da Vinci’ undermines faith, survey claims
Controversy over film reaches fever pitch a day before its world debut
Alastair Grant / AP
Updated: 4:11 p.m. ET May 16, 2006
“The Da Vinci Code” has undermined faith in the Roman Catholic Church and badly damaged its credibility, a survey of British readers revealed Tuesday as tensions over — and hype for — the forthcoming film reached a fever pitch.
As its stars off headed to walk the red carpet at Cannes, where the film was set to debut Wednesday before a worldwide release Friday, at least two countries limited the film's release.
The British survey, released by a group of prominent Catholics, revealed that readers of Dan Brown's blockbuster novel are twice as likely to believe Jesus Christ fathered children and four times as likely to think the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei is a murderous sect.
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Unfortunately, too many people get the information they base their choices and actions on from books and movies. Movies project powerful images into the very area of the mind where "seeing is believing".
I wouldn't sell them short.
Putting money in Hollywierds pocket really makes a lot of sense to me. They will then be encouraged to make more anti-Christian movies.Smart move........
Exactly, it's just fiction. Even Hollywood's apparent hypocrisy is fiction.
Is it FICTION?
My post #3 update - we saw the movie today and it was pretty good. A bit on the ewww factor with the gore but otherwise pretty good. Thumbs up for Tom Hanks and Ron Howard, but then they usually do deliver. Depite the critics, whom I never believe, it clipped along at a good pace and didn't seem at all like 2 1/2 hours. BTW, a Baptist church group had reserved a private viewing in the theater later tonight.